Religion Dispatches
…presiding over the case, Gregory L. Frost of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, but by Licking County Probate Judge Robert Hoover, acting in his role as Juvenile Court Judge for the county. The settlement still needs to be approved by Judge Frost. Sigh. Let’s hope this gets resolved soon….
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…t include fully grown animals, since “God would probably have sent healthy juvenile-sized animals that weren’t fully grown yet, so there would be plenty of room.” But cynicism can easily slide into contemptuousness, feeding into conservative stereotypes about elite liberals who, smugly assured of their own superiority, disdain the values of “real” Americans. Rather than ridicule or dismiss the Ark Encounter and its theme park sibling the Creation…
Read More…al part of my family life for generations. I do, however, find it strange, juvenile, threatening, and repulsive when grown men bully other people about their underwear on national television. Maher has a long track record of aggressively anti-religious pedantry. He likes to ridicule people of faith. And it’s not the first time he has mocked and dehumanized the 7 million Mormons who live in the U.S. Maher, Lawrence O’Donnell, and their ilk are the…
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…lliams asked Perry about the 234 Texas inmates (including men convicted as juveniles) executed on his watch. For Huntsman, one of those moments came when he observed that the post-9/11 TSA apparatus had made us more afraid as a nation. Another came when he stopped the runaway rhetorical train on immigration to observe that even illegal immigrants were “human beings” and that both they and the nation deserved a more “optimistic” and “hopeful” appro…
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…he gates opened on Friday afternoon, I was struck by the diversity—and the juvenile vibe. I took my seat close to the stage, surrounded by people of every color, finding it hard to focus because of the pounding Christian rock music shaking the stadium. Folks were on their feet, dancing and swaying. Rather than stick out, I blended in perfectly. People have tried to compare Islamophobia to old-school racism. And I’ve repeatedly disagreed. We have a…
Read More…f Christian Men could put him to work on a program for ‘reaching youth’ in juvenile delinquent homes.” Sharlet goes on to say that the two men would collaborate on what would become the model and inspiration for a generation of “faith based government activism.” Doug Coe of the Family, James Dobson, and Francis Schaeffer—a Who’s Who of Evangelicalism—would support Colson’s new endeavor called Prison Fellowship, founded in 1976. According to Sharle…
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…pulation, 50% of the homeless population, and 30% of those incarcerated in juvenile facilities. Yet religious right, anti-government activists are vociferously opposed to progressive health care, birth control, foster care, and school discipline policies; as well as to repealing racist sentencing laws and prisoner reentry policies. Is the Coalition of Color willing to accept responsibility for the scores of poor children of women of insufficient f…
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…ed, childish fools—grown adults who insist in their belief in something as juvenile as the Tooth Fairy. To a secular world where tolerance is praised above all else, a literalist Christian is deemed nearly as disgusting and morally intolerable as a racist or a sexist demanding voice. I see that all the time, and it’s so unfair. You must admit this, my former friends, it is more pleasant to have answered questions rather than to be saddled with amb…
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…ng, arduous process. I realize that this may seem like a strange, somewhat juvenile affliction, but before telling me to “get a life” and reminding me that Avatar is “just a movie,” I’d like to try to explain how this terrible sickness befell me, how I have managed to cope with it thus far, and, seeing as how I’m not the only one suffering in this manner, I’d like to address what I believe to be the implications of PAEDD for society at large. For…
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…alize its own countercultural priorities. A story maybe too big for Businessweek to grasp, and certainly too big for its juvenile cover….
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